• The SEC is trying to bar Steven Rattner, a Wall Street financier and former adviser to the Obama administration on the auto industry, from working in the securities industry for up to three years as punishment for paying off a political operative. He is resisting.

‘The World Trade Center was conceived by vested interests, promoted by pressure groups, brought into being by a handful of powerful men for reasons of monetary gain or personal pressure, and indirectly subsidized by the taxpayer’